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Electricity:
What is electricity?
http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html (Good short background info telling why electricity is so hard to define.)
The evolution of electricity
http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/toe.html (Includes video & picture gallery) good student site
World of Wires--Who Can Resist: A great interactive game to review conductors and insulators with kids.
http://www.sce.com/kidsscience/wires/resist.html
The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits: This is an interactive website for students to use. The website has 5 sections: what makes circuits work?, conductors and insulators, all about switches, changing circuits, and diagrams. Each section has three parts: useful information, an activity/game, and a quiz.
http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz
Light Bulbs:
The basics of a light bulb
http://home.howstuffworks.com/light-bulb.htm (Lots of info for teacher, has video clips and diagrams.) good student site
Are fluorescent bulbs better? (Yes.)
http://home.howstuffworks.com/question236.htm -excellent teacher background
History
http://www.thehistoryof.net/the-history-of-the-light-bulb.html (Advanced vocab, but with explanations.)
Electromagnetic Spectrum:
http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/index.html (Brightly colored, simple voc.) great student site
Circuits:
Introduction to electrical circuits http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirt/circuits/whatcirc.htm (Very short, clear)
Activity:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/sparker.html (Demo experiment on static electricity-very easy to follow, teacher would have to get two materials, device gives shocks) great student site
Computer activity: (Students virtually experiment how electrical circuits work: excellent, simple, really cool.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/changing_circuits.shtml
Energy Hog: The Energy Hog Challenge is a set of classroom activities that guide children through lessons about different sources of energy, how we use energy at home, and how to bust energy hogs to save energy. http://www.energyhog.org/adult/educators.htm
